62 result(s) for J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes.
"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics."
"The Nobel Prize is a fine thing, but the gauge of success in science is the extent of its practical application."
"There is no such thing as a lone genius - in any field. Every great scientific idea is the product of more than one mind."
"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."
"The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance... these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community."
"The history of man is a history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defense. Through this we can build, we can grow, we can be that society that we wish to be."
"We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life."
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"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one... I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
"You have to picture many more years before I can permit myself to think, even in general terms, how it might develop. But, by that time, my course will probably be finished."
"Access to scientific research is essential to ensure both academic freedom and global progress."
"A profound awareness of the natural world and a willingness to embrace change are fundamental to scientific discovery."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent."
"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success."
"In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains... On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him."
"The general notions about human understanding... which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought, a more considerable and central place."
"A great sense of the irony of human experience, a respect for the ambiguity with which we must read the events of the world, and a sense of the possibility of pure and simple (or free) necessity, give the essential shape of Mind, of reality."
"To me, physics represents reality in terms of space, time, matter, and energy. This is all, this is everything, and everything is subject to explanation."
"In the first place, I want to emphasize that I am not primarily a physicist, but rather a philosopher, a kind of amateur poet, if you like."
"The scholar's duty is to speak the truth as he finds it, without shame, without calculation."
"If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of the nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite, or they will perish."
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"Perfection was neither a possibility nor a desirable one; this had to be learned as an inescapable necessity."
"The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air."
"Knowledge cannot replace friendship. I'd rather be an idiot than lose you."
"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
"There are children in every house, and old men and women. I love them all as much as my own children and my own family."
"We hope to confront the problem of realizing apparent contradictions by viewing them as complementary factors."
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent."
"In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The god is powerful."
"There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men."
"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them."
"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."
"Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful."
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"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity for reflection."
"The ethic of science is the ethic of honesty. The great scientific virtue is to follow truth wherever it leads, even if this conflicts with established ideas."
"I need physics more than friends."
"In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
"There is always one central orthodoxy from which one must not deviate. A discussion is, by definition, a deviation. This orthodoxy is discernible and indisputable. It is the orthodoxy that it is illicit to inquire into its existence and its nature."
"Openness, in its essence, is transparency: a desire and willingness to allow the world to see what it will."
"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."
"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
"We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert."
"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it."
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."
"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."
"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors."
"I am become light, the illuminator of worlds."
"In some way, every new piece of knowledge must change one's relationship with the cosmos."
"The important point is that the simplest and most likely hypothesis is to be preferred."
"There are not many original ideas anywhere in physics."
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
"In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience, it is the imagination that brings the most telling metaphors."
"The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person."
"There is no weapon as potentially dangerous as that of the scientist. But the scientist utilizes its power for peace and progress."
"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation."
"Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants, and trees - should be your teacher."
"The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance—these are what may make a vast, complex, ever-growing, ever-changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community."
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